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It's almost time - Top 10 games of the year?

Well, we're coming into December now, and I'm starting to think about writing my top 10 games of the year. I've not played perhaps as many games as I should have this year - so I'm putting it wide, What have you enjoyed? what are your games of the year? what might I have missed? So far I want to include: Crusader Kings 2, FTL, Max Payne 3, Walking Dead, X-Com..

What am I missing? [I bounced off dishonoured and Planetside 2, so..]

Originally Posted by The Innocent

You, sir, are awesome.

I spew words about Videogames, SEO and general geekery at Jaketucker.com

I am not even sure whether I actually played 10 games this year. Not counting older games I reinstalled, obviously, since they aren't from 2012.
Mass Effect 3 - I don't care about the public opinion, I had a genuinely great time, I laughed, angrily shaked fists and shed some manly tears.XCOM - hard to compare to ME3 since they are just too different from each other. Both were great in their own ways.Endless Space - just one more turn.

(bought but not played yet - Legend Of Grimrock, Dishonored, The Witcher 2, Torchlight 2, Giana Sisters... work, other hobbies and social life keep getting in the way)

- If the sound of Samuel Barber's "Adagio For Strings" makes you think of Kharak burning instead of the Vietnamese jungle, most of your youth happened during the 90s. -

I'm horrified by the small number of games I've played this year. I replayed Psychonauts, and then I played Braid, and then Dishonored, and that was it. But since old games don't count then I can only do a top 1 game of the year. And the award goes to...

I can't believe I forgot that. Not sure if it'll rank highly in my Top 10, but I think it'll definitely be included because it's a really pure gaming experience, a bit like my love for the inital geometry wars, back in the day.

Originally Posted by The Innocent

You, sir, are awesome.

I spew words about Videogames, SEO and general geekery at Jaketucker.com

I was just thinking about this annual list earlier this morning. I'll give a more comprehensive account later, but right now I already know that it'll definitely include Crusader Kings II, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria.

"He has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to
the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free". ~ Luke 4:18

I reckon the top 8 down to Dark Souls are certainties but things get more speculative below that.

Outsider longshot: Tribes: Ascend, which would be my pick though I suspect the consensus of the RPS hivemind will more likely be PS2 over Tribes for a FTP manshooter.
I could see Torchlight 2 sneaking in there too, maybe.

My own most enjoyed this year: Hotline Miami, Tribes, XCOM, The Walking Dead. I suspect I'm going to love Dishonored and Far Cry 3 but I'm not buying them until I've cleared a lot more of my backlog next year.

FTL - This was completely unique in my experience. A story generator second only to...

Crusader Kings II - This one kind of blew me away. I admit that I yearn for a bit more Total War in the combat, but it really is the only place to go for trumped-up fake charges against your selfish, fat, inept older son, who gets confined to a prison cell so that his capable younger brother can take over, only to have the youngster die of some horrible Medieval something or other and the fat, inept, older, and now angrier son must be cleared and given titles and then you must become him and play as him.

Borderlands 2: Still killing my way through it. It's sunk its hooks in deep. Hey what's that blue thing over there!?

Towns: Inexplicably compelling, but I'm a sucker for that kind of thing.

What I didn't love at all:

DiabloIII - I really tried to like it. Benefit of the doubt and all that. But the fifth time the game lagged out I found my self inexplicably dead when it re-synched ... in singleplayer, I alt-F4'd and uninstalled. Fuck that game. I feel like they stole my money.

Counterstrike GO: I don't know what I expected, but this didn't grab me.

XCOM
Crusader Kings 2
The Walking Dead
FTL
Mass Effect 3 (the ending was a bit mince but I enjoyed the ride)
Botanicula
Stacking (it only came out on PC this year if I remember rightly)

Stuff that might be up there when I buy it or have time to play it properly

Dishonoured
Far Cry 3
Max Payne 3
Hotline Miami
Resonance

Also if we're playing the "guess the RPS games of Christmas game" I reckon that 30 Flights of Loving will almost certainly be on there (I didn't really get on with it myself, it was OK but I thought Gravity Bone worked a lot better) and Rayman "Oranges" has an outside shot too.